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S.F. assistant district attorney sentenced to prison
Mercury News ^
| 6/14/06
| Bay Cities News Service
Posted on 06/14/2006 10:08:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan announced that San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Robert William Roland, 35, was sentenced today to six months in prison, three years of supervised release, and 150 hours of community service for receiving drugs on three separate occasions from defendants he was prosecuting.
Roland pleaded guilty on Feb. 8 to four felony counts, including possession of MDMA, or Ecstasy, with intent to distribute, using a telephone to facilitate the commission of a felony drug offense, and two counts of possessing Ecstasy, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
`Prosecutors, because of the unique role they play in the criminal justice system, must conduct themselves with the utmost integrity. This defendant abused the public trust by violating some of the very laws he swore to uphold, with the very defendants that he was obligated to prosecute,` Ryan said.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: assistant; california; districtattorney; donutwatch; libertarians; prison; sanfrancisco; sentenced; warondrugs; wod; wodlist
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To: NormsRevenge
Six months for four felonies? Yeesh!
To: DemforBush
Looks like a nickel to me.
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posted on
06/14/2006 10:17:42 PM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: DemforBush
And he doesn't have to "turn himself in" for another 6 weeks. You or I, not being agents of the state (well I'm not and I assume you're not) would go directly to jail without collecting our $200.00
To be honest though, we probably wouldn't do more than the 6 months, we just wouldn't get the grace of picking when we do it.
Oh I don't think it's a certainty he'll get disbarred either (may be wrong about that).
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posted on
06/14/2006 10:38:00 PM PDT
by
Clinging Bitterly
(Oregon - a pro-militia and firearms state that looks just like Afghanistan .)
To: Dave in Eugene of all places
To: NormsRevenge
from defendants he was prosecuting
The guy is nuts! Talk about pleading for help!
To: NormsRevenge
Is this that "Culture of Corruption" the liberals are always squawking about?
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posted on
06/14/2006 11:49:47 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX)
To: Abram; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Allosaurs_r_us; Americanwolf; Americanwolfsbrother; Annie03; ...
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posted on
06/14/2006 11:54:55 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: Wolfie
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posted on
06/14/2006 11:56:38 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: NormsRevenge
I thought that was legal in S.F.
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posted on
06/15/2006 3:29:22 AM PDT
by
CAWats
(And I will make no distinction between terrorists and the democrats.)
To: DemforBush
there is way more to this story...he had info on a lot of people there...course we will never know cause the libs don't have any 'culture of corruption".
To: presently no screen name
from defendants he was prosecuting
The guy is nuts! Talk about pleading for help!
It seems like that fine old concept of barter./sarcasm
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posted on
06/15/2006 5:09:56 AM PDT
by
winston2
(In matters of necessity let there be unity, in matters of doubt liberty, and in all things charity:)
To: winston2
He was prosecuting, not defending. But then, again, maybe not so diligently.
To: NormsRevenge
"Almost all of the major police corruption scandals of the last several decades have had their roots in drug enforcement. We’ve seen robbery, extortion, drug dealing,
drug stealing, drug use, false arrests, perjury, throw-down guns, and murder.
And these are the good guys?"...Norm Stamper, 28-year police veteran of the San Diego police department and former Seattle police chief.
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posted on
06/15/2006 8:33:14 AM PDT
by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
To: martin_fierro; Dave in Eugene of all places
Why is it highly unlikely he'll be disbarred? In may state any felony will get you disbarred, even something like a felony hot check case where you write 201.00 worth of hit checks. Unethical conduct in the practice of law is often going to get someone disbarred too, and no doubt drug deals with someone you are prosecuting is highly unethical. I don't know anything about this case or how they do things in California though. What is it that leads you two to believe that disbarment is unlikely in this case?
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posted on
06/15/2006 9:17:12 AM PDT
by
TKDietz
To: TKDietz
"201.00 worth of hit checks"
Should have said, "$201.00 worth of hot checks."
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posted on
06/15/2006 9:18:06 AM PDT
by
TKDietz
To: TKDietz
"In may state..." Should have been, "In my state." Man, that was a sloppy post. I need to proofread.
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posted on
06/15/2006 9:21:08 AM PDT
by
TKDietz
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
06/15/2006 9:22:34 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
(I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
To: TKDietz
- Why is it highly unlikely he'll be disbarred?
That's not what I wrote.
- I don't know anything about this case or how they do things in California though. What is it that leads you two to believe that disbarment is unlikely in this case?
In CA so long as he serves his prison time without further incident, is suspended from practice for a year or two, maybe retakes and passes the MPRE, he can avoid disbarment. CA seems to reserve that punishment for clear-cut cases of client trust fund embezzlement, based on what I read in the monthly CA Attorney Disipline Report.
To: martin_fierro
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